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Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended by AlexandrB on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:19AM (#33985697)
> I feel like the really interesting part of "The Twitter Files" isn't the arbitrary moderation decisions made (we sort of knew what they were thru their implementation and it's hard for moderation to be "not arbitrary" whether you agree with the decisions or not) but the involvement of US government representatives in it.

I haven't followed parts 2 & 3 of the Twitter files. But the irony here is that the government officials involved in part 1 were the Trump administration. Biden was not yet elected and should be considered a private citizen.

Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended by LMYahooTFY on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:42PM (#33986913)
Perhaps legally this is how it would work (IANAL), but given what's played out during elections I think that subjecting a candidate to the criteria of a public official in this regard has merit.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended by Jiro on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:19PM (#33986613)
This is one of the ways in which the deep state matters.

"The Trump Administration" can be opposed to actual-Trump.

Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended by Eisenstein on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:03PM (#33987218)
It must be nice to have an escape-hatch to use whenever something doesn't line up with how you feel it should.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended by djur on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:49PM (#33987013)
The FBI helped him get elected in 2016 and was headed by his own appointee. If it was acting against his interests in 2020 that's an extraordinary failure in leadership.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended by the_only_law on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:52PM (#33989223)
The illuminati did it :o